How to pronounce“gilg”in English

And we know that Gilgamesh lived. He was a real person, he was a king in Uruk, and he was one of those people who lived

addressed his friend Gilgamesh." Well, when you're reading a story, you don't need that, and that must be because of when there was an enacting of an oral thing,

And here's another Gilgamesh, a different Gilgamesh.

suddenly we're comparing John G gilg good and Leonardo de DiCaprio we're not talking about Shakespeare anymore you know because in our Mind's Eye we have a

And this is part of the Gilgamesh workshop.

I start with the epic of Gilgamesh only to show that there is a lot of economic thinking in ancient myth.

long. And Gilgamesh is the hero of it.

down says, "And then Gilgamesh said..." you know, like in a script.

So we have stories like "The Epic of Gilgamesh," which is probably the earliest extent imaginative piece

they were woven into this long 12 Homeric-type thing about the adventures of Gilgamesh. So it is certainly literature, and it's to do with humanity and immortality, and man in the hands of the gods, and

- Yeah. Either a human person like Gilgamesh or, stories about the gods, and someone sees the Milky Way and they think, "There's a god riding a chariot up it," and then they have a story about

So "Black Widow" had an amazing one, Gilgamesh in "The Eternals" is someone that I'd love to eat with because he seems like he knows

In fact, the tales of Gilgamesh, perhaps one of the oldest written tales predating parts of the Bible—the tale of Gilgamesh, well he had a mission and his mission was to find

And here is, I think, Gilgamesh.

- So let's go to literature, 'cause we didn't really mention literature much, except you did briefly mention Epic of Gilgamesh.

after their death in the world, like Alexander, for example. So there were stories about Gilgamesh when he was alive.

roots are in oral literature. Because when somebody speaks, it says, "Gilgamesh opened his mouth to speak and addressed his friend Enkidu," and then there's a speech. "And then Enkidu opened his mouth and

So for example, there's one whole cycle of stories within "The Arabian Nights," which is very close to Gilgamesh, in which the hero goes down

That's his visor. Yes, that's the sort of beginning of the Gilgamesh puppet.

He's going to take us on a whirlwind tour of intellectual history, from the epic of Gilgamesh to the Hebrew Bible, to Greek philosophers,